Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Living with Scandal...
...widespread was knowledge about the multitude of buggings and shady transactions known as the Watergate affair. But before the Committee's term expires in February, the seven members will attempt to sift through the thousands of pages of transcripts and formulate new legislation designed to prevent an elections scandal of this type and incredible magnitude from occurring again...
Rather, what Senator Ervin and the Committee should develop is a more effective means of dealing with a scandal after it occurs: a means that would obtain the truth for the people as soon as possible, something our present system has failed to do with Watergate. 13 months have now passed since the Watergate burglars were captured in the Democratic National Committee headquarters, yet we still do not know exactly who approved the break-in and the subsequent cover-up. These months of anxious waiting have resulted in a gradual erosion of much of the public's trust...
SENATOR ERVIN and the Committee should take advantage of their opportunity to make certain that this kind of delay does not happen again. They should prepare legislation to create a permanent organization to investigate and report on election scandals. So that this organization would itself be out of the realm of political electioneering, it would most appropriately fit as a special branch of the Federal court system. Three judges might be a proper number for this unique tribunal, which would act as an investigating grand jury, with complete power to issue subpoenas, grant immunity, and deliver indictments as it deemed...
Hopefully, fear of being discovered by this investigating apparatus would deter would-be conspirators from illegal actions. Hopefully, this Court would never have to be called in to "find facts" about another election scandal--no matter how big or small. But since there may be those who fail to learn from the gross mistakes of others, we should eliminate the possibility of being caught with our pants down a second time...